I have had to be primarily self taught in R and I still have a long way to go. I like R way better than SAS but the documentation in SAS is way better (that's what happens when you pay people to do it full time). However, there are innumera...

Our newest book, Using SAS for Data Management, Statistical Analysis and Graphics, will soon be shipping from Amazon, CRC Press, and other fine retailers. The book complements our SAS and R book, particularly for users less interested in R. It presen...

See a the poll here by Gabriel Rossman at Code and Culture. I voted for R and ‘igraph’. If you use R you are getting access to all the other wonderful things that come with R. Using specialized package, like Pajek, UCINET etc requires constant going back and forth between network software and some other

Glancing perchance at the back of my Amstat News, I was intrigued by the SAS advertisement Bayesian Methods Specify Bayesian analysis for ANOVA, logistic regression, Poisson regression, accelerated failure time models and Cox regression through the GENMOD, LIFEREG and PHREG procedures. Analyze a wider variety of models with the MCMC procedure, a general purpose Bayesian

I came across this blog post just now: The Next Big Thing, and of course these words caught my attention: However, for me personally and for most users, both individual and organizational, the much greater cost of software is the time it takes to install it, maintain it, learn it and document it. On

Major credit card issuing networks (including Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express) allow simple credit card number validation using the Luhn Algorithm (also called the “modulus 10″ or “mod 10″ algorithm). The following code demonstrates an implementation in SAS. The code also validates the credit card number by length and by checking against a short

In our department and various places on the Intertubes, SAS programmers set the HTML title tag (which sets the title in web browsers and on search engines) in ODS using the headtext option: ods html headtext="<title>My great report</title>" /* wrong! */ file="foo.html"; This may work in some situations, but it’s ugly and wrong. To see